After five months of weekly GEM (Girl’s Empowerment and Mentoring) club meetings, all the girls along with their mentors and a few lucky guests held a large fet (party) to showcase and celebrate what they had learned and how they had grown.

Tate Lowrey, our in-country Operations and Program Director, spent a few days in Petit Trou last week, recording accounts of the resources which remain and the challenges ahead as seen by the people. Here is what she reported.